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BANGALORE: IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plans to recruit around 4,000 software professionals in the next one year, notwithstanding global slowdown, a top company executive said on Monday. "We are 21,000 now. We should be 25,000 by December 2003, "Vice-President and Head-Banking Practice, N G Subramaniam, told reporters. He said the company was also looking to set up new facilities in Bangalore, where it currently has 2,300 employees, including 1,800 catering to the banking and financial services and insurance (BFSI)

NEW DELHI: The fusion of life sciences and IT has India's largest IT services company all excited. TCS has entered the emerging area of bio-informatics, with 40 of its specially-trained engineers working in this field in Hyderabad. The company has already invested around $1.5 million in the project ? a contract from CSIR to develop an end-to-end bio-informatics product for use by Indian academic institutions. The software engineers working on the project are imparted a nine-month course on life sciences by TCS before they start working.

NEW DELHI: The fusion of life sciences and IT has India's largest IT services company all excited. TCS has entered the emerging area of bio-informatics, with 40 of its specially-trained engineers working in this field in Hyderabad. The company has already invested around $1.5 million in the project ? a contract from CSIR to develop an end-to-end bio-informatics product for use by Indian academic institutions. The software engineers working on the project are imparted a nine-month course on life sciences by TCS before they start working.

NEW DELHI: Keane, Inc. a US-based technology consulting firm plans to triple its Indian software staff to 5,000 as it rides an outsourcing boom driven by global clients, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday. Brian Keane told a news conference the Boston-based company would invest a minimum of $25 million over the next two years on ramping up infrastructure. The firm, which develops software for the manufacturing and retail sectors, has around 1,600 employees in India.

German business software vendor SAP AG is planning to hire 500 software engineers in India, taking its Indian workforce to 1,500 by the end of this year. This is part of SAP's plan to hire more in countries like India and China where the labour is cheaper. SAP CEO, Henning Kagermann, had earlier said that in addition to plans to sell more software in the Chinese and Indian markets, SAP aims to take advantage of hiring less costly software developers in those regions.

NEW DELHI: Keane, Inc. a US-based technology consulting firm plans to triple its Indian software staff to 5,000 as it rides an outsourcing boom driven by global clients, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday. Brian Keane told a news conference the Boston-based company would invest a minimum of $25 million over the next two years on ramping up infrastructure. The firm, which develops software for the manufacturing and retail sectors, has around 1,600 employees in India.

CHENNAI: Thales Group, electronics and systems supplier to defence, aerospace and security segments, is to expand its captive software development centre in Chennai. The French company also plans to set up a maintenance centre for avionics in the country targeting domestic market. Thales' Chennai centre, which was set up nine months back and has 100 people at present, would recruit 300 software engineers by the end of 2008 and employ 1,000 people by the year 2010.

HANOVER: Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser said India shouldn't just remain a back office as the world is not only about software engineers, but is also about manufacturing and engineering. While praising the Prime Minister and acknowledging his efforts to improve the business climate in India, he said before making in India, "let the government make it happen in India". The comments came during a panel discussion. Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry , while admitting that there were a number of challenges, went out of the way to argue that changes were happening at several fronts.

NEW DELHI: South Korea's biggest firm Samsung Electronics is mulling setting up a Notebook PC manufacturing facility in India and plans to make further investment in expanding research and development (R&D) facility. "We are drawing up plans for manufacturing more products in India. Notebook PCs (which the company is launching in India later this year), could be one of the new products we may begin producing in India," K S Kim, President & CEO (Asia Pacific), Samsung Asia, said.

CHENNAI: The Central and state governments could play a major role in boosting the business of the domestic software companies by utilising IT in various sectors in a big way, a top official of the Polaris Software Lab has said. "Compared to the US government, which contributed 20 to 30 per cent of the total revenue of software business there, the investment made by Indian government in the IT sector is negligible," Polaris chairman and managing director Arun Jain said. The governments in India are yet to utilise in a big way the software facilities in various departments, he told reporters here.